Reply to "Validity of five MMPI alcoholism scales: a critique and reanalysis"

Replied to Hays and Stacy's critique of an article by Holmes, Dungan and McLaughlin in which the validity of MMPI alcoholism scales was questioned. Hays and Stacy asserted that the original authors misinterpreted the results of the statistical analyses. The present article presents support for the original conclusions and comments on Hays and Stacy's reanalysis.